Zacharias Avon-El

Zacharias Avon-El
Physical information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Biographical information
Father	Jeremiah Avon-El
Mother	Johanna Zebulonsdottar
Spouse	Elia Simrani-Osman
Children	Madani Avon-El Sara Avon-El a further forty adopted
Date of birth	1651 AN (100 AN years old)
Place of birth	Shirekeep
Residence(s)	Merensk
Nationality	Benacian Union  Hurmu
Allegiance(s)	Nationalist & Humanist Party Order of the Holy Lakes
Occupation	Szodan of Benacia

Born in 1651 AN, the year of the Auspicious Occasion, at Shirekeep to Johanna Zebulonsdottar (1628–) and Jeremiah Avon-El (1625–). Benacian politician and soldier. Held the rank of Frumst Þeïn whilst his father was Szodan of Benacia, and still addressed as such by his partisans. President of the General Staff Council and Vice-President of the High Presidium of the Benacian Union. Knight of the Holy Lakes.

Wed to Elia Simrani-Osman during the Investiture of Jeremiah Avon-El as Szodan of Benacia in 1678 AN. The joint wedding of father and son to their new brides during the course of these festivities was regarded at the time as being an attempt to transform the position of Szodan into a Benacian and Cedrist monarchy to rival the Kaiseress in Shireroth. The union yielded two daughters, Madani Avon-El (born 1685 AN) and Sara Avon-El (born 1688 AN).

Representative of the Permanent Commission of the Raspur Pact on the Council of Sathrati from 1681 AN to 1691 AN.

His father, reigning as Raynor XIII Kalirion, resigned as Szodan and Commander-in-Chief in 1683 AN due to illness. In a disappointment to his dynastic aspirations, the Command Executive of Benacia Command passed over the princeling and appointed Vüqar Rugahi to the position of Szodan instead.

Discontented by the sudden loss of status, Zacharias Avon-El allowed himself to be persuaded into an abortive coup attempt during 1684 AN. Surviving this failure owing more to the dysfunction of the internal security apparatus than to his own skill or judgement, Zacharias would be obliged to spend the majority of his time away from Merensk, primarily in Sathrati until his recall. Indeed it would ultimately be his father who, by various machinations, would stage the putsch that returned himself to power in the first month of 1694 AN.

During his period away from the seat of power Zacharias received a curious appointment to the "Transegale Trading Company of the Kingdom of Ransenar, Inc.", as President. Although supposedly domiciled and holding office at the ESB Representative Office in Goldfield, it was never wholly apparent that Zacharias had ever even visited the office to which he had been appointed. Nonetheless, the company, which invested in and traded listed shares in the Goldfield Bourse, paid promptly, regularly, and generously, for the services of its president.

Exercised command over the I Uihmanz "Siyacher" of the Black Legions from 1691 AN to the onset of the Second Elwynnese Civil War. Appointed to command of the Central Banner Group of Benacia Command in 1694 AN. Developed the land component of his father's plan to end the conflict – which would culminate in the Scouring of 1695 AN.

Prefect of Merensk since 1703 AN.

Appointed Commissioner of the Circuit of Benacia in the Unified Governorates of Benacia following the Peace of Lapano in 1704 AN.

The Peace of Lapano, and the departure of his father into exile, would see Zacharias brought into the High Presidium of the Benacian Union by the Congress of Chryse from 1704 in order to maintain the interests of those who had been advanced by the Avon-El patronage network. Serving under his father's enemies, Constantine Loup from 1704 to 1709 AN, and Daniyal ibn Daniyal from 1709 onwards, Zacharias has held the posts of President of the General Staff Council, Vice-President of the High Presidium, and Commissioner for War, concurrently.

He remains a strong candidate to be appointed as Szodan of Benacia, although this will bring him into conflict with Lors Bakker-Kalirion, the son of Daniyal ibn Daniyal, who is also known to harbour the same ambition.

The death of his father, although long expected, grieved Zacharias nonetheless. In spite of the controversies that arose from the Scouring, he petitioned the High Presidium of the Benacian Union for Jeremiah, as befitting a former Szodan of Benacia, to receive a formal state funeral in Merensk.

Appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Transegale Trading Company on 13.V.1724, the day after the demise of his predecessor in office, Gunther Bauer, retiring from this post at the close of 1740. Took the opportunity to tour Hurmu.

The Shiro-Benacian War, although it did not seem him successfully expand the bounds of his Central Banner Command's area of operations did at least see him spared the humiliations that attended the collapse of the Northern Banner Group in Elwynn and Amokolia. Nonetheless, the war had been a calamity for the Union-State and Zacharias was obliged to spend several years suppressing wildfire mutinies and rebellions throughout the Unified Governorates.

The turn in his fortunes would begin with the long due death of his rival, Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion, in 1743 AN. A years long interregnum would ensue, but finally in 1747 AN, Zacharias would prevail upon the Congress of Chryse to accept his candidacy as Szodan of Benacia.

The Grand Adoption

On the occasion of his near death during the Year of the Great Mortality, it was discovered by his attendants amongst his personal archive that certain letters patent had been issued which revealed a remarkable decision by the Szodan of Benacia.

Zacharias, it was now widely considered in certain quarters, had gone quite mad after ruminating upon the failure of his lineage, which consisted of two childless daughters both long past the age when miracle could have been hoped for. Embittered and enraged, but finally, after returning to Chryse in 1747, he had resolved upon a new purpose which he finally enacted in 1749.

The aforementioned letters patent, by the Szodan's unbounded personal authority, had unilaterally adopted an entire cohort from the Humanist Institute of Bray in Ransenar. The Institute, the children, and their parents, had been prevailed upon to acquiesce to the singular proposal in return for generous donative payments and placements for the boys in the elite regiments of the garrison of Chryse, whilst the girls would be promised advantageous weddings and places of honour at court. They were not to publicly assume the surname of Avon-El until the occasion of his passing – Zacharias had a long list of grasping relatives and bitter rivals whom he had wished to confound with the reading of his will.

The discovery of the letters patent had made the issue of secrecy a moot point, so at last, in the final month of 1750 AN, those youths had been gathered together by the Magisters-Carnifex and brought to an antechamber of the Benacian Academy, utilised by the institution's chapter of the Humanist Vanguard as dormitories, to await their fate.

№	Name	Gender	Ethnic Origin	Date of Birth	Notes
1	Karl Gustaf Lindström	Male	Elw	06.VI.1732	Eldest of the presented youths
2	Anna Brita Silfverström	Female	Elw	12.VI.1732
3	Erik Magnus Björkman	Male	Elw	19.VI.1732
4	Lovisa Charlotta von Tiesenhausen	Female	Elw	27.VI.1732
5	Nils Henrik Wrede	Male	Elw	04.VII.1732
6	Ulrika Eleonora Palmstruch	Female	Elw	11.VII.1732
7	Johan Adolf Cederström	Male	Elw	18.VII.1732
8	Maria Sofia Lagerberg	Female	Elw	25.VII.1732
9	Olof Samuel Drake	Male	Elw	02.VIII.1732
10	Katarina Elisabet Gyllenhaal	Female	Elw	09.VIII.1732
11	Gustav Fredrik von Rosen	Male	Elw	16.VIII.1732
12	Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht	Female	Elw	23.VIII.1732
13	Carl Fredrik Piper	Male	Elw	30.VIII.1732
14	Wilhelm Ludwig von der Osten genannt Sacken	Male	Benacian	07.IX.1732
15	Sophia Dorothea von Knobelsdorff	Female	Benacian	14.IX.1732
16	Johann Friedrich von Albedyll	Male	Benacian	21.IX.1732
17	Charlotte Amalie von Tettau	Female	Benacian	28.IX.1732
18	Heinrich August von der Goltz	Male	Benacian	05.X.1732
19	Eleonore Juliane von Gruben	Female	Benacian	12.X.1732
20	Georg Wilhelm von Kleist	Male	Benacian	19.X.1732
21	Luise Wilhelmine von Schwerin	Female	Benacian	26.X.1732
22	Caspar Ludwig von Bredow	Male	Benacian	02.XI.1732
23	Friederike Albertine von Rohr	Female	Benacian	09.XI.1732
24	Otto Magnus von Diericke	Male	Benacian	16.XI.1732
25	Johanna Sophie von der Lühe	Female	Benacian	23.XI.1732
26	August Ferdinand von Borcke	Male	Benacian	30.XI.1732
27	Seamus Ó Conaill (James O’Connell)	Male	Ransenari	08.XII.1732
28	Máire Ní Bhriain (Mary O’Brien)	Female	Ransenari	15.XII.1732
29	Brian Mac Mathúna (Bryan Mahony)	Male	Ransenari	22.XII.1732
30	Síle Ní Dhubháin (Sheila Devane)	Female	Ransenari	29.XII.1732
31	Tadhg Ó Donnabháin (Teige Donovan)	Male	Ransenari	05.I.1733
32	Brigid Ní Cheallaigh (Bridget Kelly)	Female	Ransenari	12.I.1733
33	Cormac Mac Carthaig (Cormac McCarthy)	Male	Ransenari	19.I.1733
34	Eibhlín Ní Fhlaithearta (Eileen Flaherty)	Female	Ransenari	26.I.1733
35	Donough Ó Briain (Denis O’Brien)	Male	Ransenari	02.II.1733
36	Nuala Ní Dhálaigh (Nuala Daly)	Female	Ransenari	09.II.1733
37	Farhad Shirazi	Male	Babkhi	17.II.1733
38	Soraya Esfahani	Female	Babkhi	24.II.1733
39	Darius Rezaei	Male	Babkhi	03.III.1733
40	Laleh Tabatabai	Female	Babkhi	10.III.1733

Honors and Awards

• : Knight Commander of the Order of the Royal Blood (1722)